The prices of license to keep ferries on the Miami were fixed as follows : For a license to keep a ferry on the Miami, between the towns of Hamilton and Rossville, or at any place within a mile of either of the said towns, $4 ; and for a license to keep a ferry on the Miami at any other place in the county, except as above excepted, $2. The rates of ferriage at all public ferries on the Miami, for the ensuing year, was made as follows: Single person, six and one fourth cents; man and horse, twelve and one half cents; loaded wagon and team, one dollar; any other four wheeled carriage, seventy-five cents; empty wagon and team, or a loaded cart and team, fifty cents ; empty cart and team, a sled or sleigh and team, thirty seven and a half cents; every horse, mare, mule, ass, or head of neat cattle, six and one fourth cents; every sheep, hog, or goat, three cents.

July 7, 1806, the Board of Commissioners allowed the following accounts: Thomas HUNT, judge of the election for justice of the peace in Liberty Township, $1; Benjamin THOMPSON, a judge of the election of justice of the peace in St. Clair Township, $1; Isaac GIBSON, a judge of the election for a justice of the peace, held in Ross Township, 21st of June, $1; Celadon SYMMES, services in attending at the clerk's office to canvas the votes given at elections for justices of the peace, @1.25.

"Whereas, It hath been fully shown to the Board of Commissioners that the inhabitants residing in the original surveyed townships here in after mentioned, from their number of electors in each township, are fully entitled to the privilege of holding elections respectively there in for the purpose of electing three trustees and one treasurer in each of the said townships, agreeably to the tenor of the act entitled 'An act to incorporate the original surveyed townships.'

"Therefore, for the purpose of electing the said three trustees and one treasurer in each of the said townships, it is ordered that elections be held therein respectively at the times and places here in after specified, to wit:

"In township numbered one, of the second entire range east of the Miami (being Fairfield, a part of which lies in Hamilton County), at the house of John MAXWELL, in said township, on Saturday the second day of August next.

"In township numbered two, of the second entire range east of the Miami (part of which lies in the county of Hamilton), at the house of William ORSON, in said township, on Saturday the second day of August Next.

"In township numbered two, of the third entire or military range (Fairfield), at the house of Benjamin LINE, in said township, on Saturday the second day of August next.

"In township numbered three, of the third entire or military range (Liberty), at the house of John BEATY, in said township, on Saturday the second day of August next.

"In township numbered two, of the fourth entire range east of the Miami (Lemon), part of which lies in the county of Warren, at the house of Joshua DAVIS, in said township, on Saturday the second day of August next.

"In township numbered five, in the second range west of the Miami (Milford), at the house of Abel STOUT, in said township, on Saturday the second day of August next.

"It is also ordered that written notices of the same elections be set up in the said several townships respectively, agreeably to the requisitions of the above recited statute.

"Notices made out, twenty copies."

August 4, 1806, the Board of Commissioners ordered that the assessments of county taxes for the current year should be as follows: Assessments on probable receipts-County taxes, as per the lister's returns, $1,146.49 ; land taxes (the county's moiety), $400; licenses to tavern keepers, store keepers, and ferries, $260. Appropriations-Residue of the second installment for building the jail, $200 ; last installment for jail, $800 ; lister's and other accounts liquidated and allowed, $380.56 ; probable amount of associate judge's fees. $100 ; prosecuting attorney of the State, $80 ; clerk of the Common Pleas and sheriff, $40 ; grand jury fees, $25 ; judges of election, $10 ; wolf scalps, ect., $30 ; collector's and county treasurer's commissions, $150 ; Board of Commissioner's, clerk and stationery, $100 ; delinquencies and contingencies, $140.93.

The following persons were appointed to collect the county taxes : Fairfield, George HARLAN, $276.845 ; Lemon, Robert FERRIS, $306.695 ; Liberty, Thomas HUNT, $147.15 ; Milford, Robert SCOTT, $83.50 ; Ross, John GERRARD, $95.60 ; St. Clair, William BRODERICK, $124.65 ; Wayne, Nathaniel BELL, $116.25.

September 1, 1806, the following persons received $2.25 each for services as grand jurors: B. F. RANDOLPH, Henry BROWN, Jacob LINE, James MCCLURE, Michael PIERCE, James STUART, William OGLE, James MARTIN, James PEARIS, David FLEANARD, Thomas MATTHEWS, James MILLS, Thomas HUNT, Thompson MAXWELL. TORRENCE & WINGATE received payment in full of their last installment, $1,800.

The following collectors were appointed to collect the State taxes: Fairfield, George HARLAN, $121.53 ; Lemon, Robert FERRIS, $180.34 ; Liberty, Thomas HUNT, $118.88 ; Milford and St. Clair, William BRODERICK, $50.53 ; Ross, John GERRARD, $59.278 ; Wayne, Nathniel BELL, $48.315.

September 2, 1806, James BLACKBURN, collector of county taxes for the year 1803, exhibited his accounts, as follows : Dr. James BLACKBURN, to the amount of his duplicate of county taxes for the year 1803, $594.49. Cr.- By amount of cash paid into the county treasury, and per treasurer's receipts, $542.71 ; by amount of deductions and delinquencies allowed, $17.19 ; by amount of commission for collecting and paying over, ect., $34.59.

October 6, 1806, James HEATON, county surveyor, for expenses incurred in ascertaining the southern boundary line of Butler County, was granted $29.25.

November 3, 1806, accounts were allowed : John GRAY, appraiser in St. Clair Township, $1.25 ; John NELSON and George HOWARD, wolf-scalp, each, $1 ; Isaac REED, making return of election from Lemon Township, $1.25 ; Thomas HUNT, one of the judges of election in Liberty Township, $1 ; James SCOTT, one of the judges of election in Milford Township, $1 ; Isaac GIBSON, one of the judges of election in Ross Township, $1 ; Robert TAYLOR, one of the judges of election in St. Clair Township, $1 ; John PATTERSON, one of the judges of election in Wayne Township, $1; Joshua DELAPLAINE, carrying an abstract of votes given for senator to the clerk's office in Warren County, $2 ; Celadon SYMMES, attendance at clerk's office, in canvassing the election, $1 ; James SMITH, for his attendance at the clerk's office, at the canvassing of the election, $1 ; Issac STANLEY, for attendance at the clerk's office, at the canvassing of five different elections, and the drawing of three different juries, $4 ; David LEE, wolf-scalp, $1.

December 2, 1806, the following accounts were allowed : Isaac STANLEY, services as one of the viewers of the road from Rossville up the Miami, intersecting the road from Hamilton up Four-mile, ect., at or near Hampton ADKINS's, $1.70 ; Isaac WILES, one of the viewers, $1.70 ; William MURRAY, one of the viewers, 85 cents ; James HEATON, surveying, with the fees of the chain-men and markers, ect., $4.84 ; Samuel KENNEDY, as one of the viewers of the proposed highway from Cotton Run, by WINSTON's, ect., thence to D. PERRY's, $4 ; John VINNEDGE and Isaiah BALL, viewers, each, $4 ; James HEATON, surveying, including the fees of the chain-men and marker, $9.50 ; Samuel DICK, one of the appraisers of damages on the proposed highway from Cotton Run, by WINSTON's, to D. PERRY's, $1 ; Ebenezer PADDOX, James CUMMINS, Charles BREECE, and Thomas POUNDS, for the same, each, $1 ; John REILY, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, making out duplicates of taxes for the collectors, and as clerk to the Board of Commissioners from 5th May, 1806, to 4th November, 1806, $74.

January 5, 1807, the following amounts were allowed : James DUNN, associate judge, $16.50 ; Henry WEAVER, associate judge, $16.50 ; Celadon SYMMES, associate judge, $16.50 ; William MCCLELLAN, sheriff, for stove hire and fuel, ect., for the court house, at December term, 1806, candles, and a lock for the jail, $5 ; James SMITH, Alexander WILSON, William HAYS, David WILLIAMSON, Robert COLWELL, Thomas ALSTON, Bladen ASHBY, Joseph LUMMIS, David CHAMBERS, Robert WINTON, Charles BREECE, James MCCLURE, Samuel DAVIS, Ezekiel BALL, and William MARTIN, grand jurors, each, $1.50 ; Brice VIRGIN, constable, for attending on the grand jury of Butler Common Pleas, $1.50 ; Thomas FERGUSON, wolf-scalp, $1 ; Thomas HUNT, collecting the county taxes in Liberty Township, 1806, $11.32 ; Robert SCOTT, collecting the county taxes in Milford Township, $6.70 ; George GERRARD, collecting State taxes in Ross Township, $3.83 ; John GERRARD, collecting the county taxes of Ross Township, $7.74 ; William BRODERICK, collecting the State tax of Milford Township, and the county and State tax of St. Clair Township, $13.89 ; Isaac WILES, making a chain for the confinement of criminals in jail, $4.50 ; Nathaniel BELL, collecting and paying over the State taxes in Wayne Township, $2.95 ; George HARLAN, collecting and paying over the State taxes in Fairfield Township, $7.77 ; Davis BALL, one of the viewers of the road crossing the Miami at Baum's ford, thence to the Greenville road, $3.40 ; Levi JENNINGS, viewer, $3.40 ; Jacob BELL, viewer, $3.40 ; Nathaniel STUBBS, surveying, including the chain carrier's and marker's fees, $7.02 ; John SAMPLE, services in making return election of justices of the peace in Lemon Township, $1.

February 2, 1807, premiums were paid on wolf-scalps to James IRWIN, George HOWARD, George MASKLE, Thomas COOCH, and James CUMMINS.

March 2, 1807, accounts were allowed to Charles BREECE, services as one of the viewers of the proposed highway from William's mill, on Indian Creek, to the highway leading from Hamilton to Cincinnati, $2.55 ; Joseph WALKER and William CROOKS, viewers, each, $2.55 ; James HEATON, surveying, $5 ; Israel WOODRUFF and Isaac WOOLVERTON, chain men, each, $1.34 ; Jonathan WOOLVERTON, marker, $1.34 ; Samuel KENNEDY, James SMITH, james CUMMINS, John WINGATE, and Isaac WILES, assessors of damages, each, 85 cents ; Levi LIMPUS, wofl-scalp ; George HARLAN, collecting and paying over the county taxes in Fairfield Township, $22.06.

The Board of Commissioners, on March 30, allowed the following : Joseph LEE, 2 wolf-scalps, $2. ; William MCCLELLAN, sheriff, fees paid for apprehension of John WELSH, committed on a charge of robbing the United States mail, $50 ; John REILY, clerk of Board of Commissioners, making out a duplicate of the State taxes from the lister's returns, a copy for the auditor of state, ect., and for services to the third March, instant, $39.75.

Accounts allowed at the session of May 4, 1807 ; James DUNN, associate judge, $18 ; James SHIELDS, Edward BEBB, Thompson MAXWELL, Daniel BAKER, John VANSICKLE, Samuel ENYART, Peter WILLIAMSON, James YOUNG, Robert TAYLOR, Junior, William MORRIS, Charles STUART, Robert TAYLOR, James MILLS, Lawrence KAVENAUGH, and Andrew CHRISTY, grand jurors, each, $2.25 ; Thomas HUNTER, constable, for attending on the grand jury in Butler Common Pleas, $2.25 ; John SMALLEY, a judge of the election for coroner in Liberty Township, $1 ; William SWAFFORD, a judge of the election for coroner, held in Milford Township, $1.25 ; John RICHMOND, a judge of the election for coroner in Ross Township, $1.12 ; Robert WINTON, a judge of the election for coroner in St. Clair Township, $1.12 ; Benjamin VAN CLEIF, a judge of the election for coroner in Wayne Township, $1.25 ; Uzal EDWARD, assignee of John GARRISON, wolf-scalp, $1. ; William SQUIRE, first installment for building the jailer's house, $250.

July 6, 1807, accounts were allowed as follows : James SMITH, one of the viewers of the road from Hamilton, by Middletown, to the county line, in a direction for Franklin, in Warren County, $6.80 ; John TORRENCE and Charles BREECE, viewers, each, $6.80 ; Daniel CHAMBERS and Smith THOMPSON, chain men, each, $3.25 ; Henry HENSLEY ; ax man, $2.68 ; Henry MASON ; ax man, 67 cents ; James HEATON , surveyor, $9.50 ; James SMITH, one of the viewers of the highway from John HAMILTON's to the north boundary of the county, in a direction for the town of Eaton, including a transcript from the records of Hamilton County, of a survey, $5.50 ; John TORRENCE, viewer, $4.25 ; David BEATY, viewer and for furnishing a chain man, $6.26 ; Thomas EDMUNSON, chain man, $2.01 ; Hampton ADKIN's, ax man, $2.10 ; James HEATON, surveyor, $6.50 ; Henry TAYLOR, one of the viewers of the highway from Scott's tan yard up Seven mile creek, $3.40 ; Samuel DAVIS, viewer, $2.55 ; Jacob WITENGER, viewer, $3.40 ; Darius C. ORCUTT and Israel WOODRUFF, chain men, each, $1.67 ; Robert SCOTT, ax man, $1.34 ; James HEATON, surveyor, $5.75 ; Solomon LINE, one of the assessors of damages on the road leading from Hamilton by Middletown, and from John HAMILTON's to the north boundary os the county, in a direction for the county of Eaton, $3.40 ; Andrew CHRISTY and Isaac STANLEY, assessors of damages, each, $3.40 ; John MCDONALD, assessor of damages on the road leading from Hamilton by Middletown, $1.70 ; John REILY, clerk of Butler Common Pleas, $35.50.

Accounts were allowed, at the meeting of August 3, 1807, to John DENEEN, wolf scalp, $1. ; William GARD, wolf scalp, $1. ; George ROBY, 4 wolf scalps, $2.50.

A statement was made of the probable general receipts and expenditures of Butler County for the year 1807: County taxes, $1,395 ; land tax (the county moiety), $330 ; tavern, store, and ferry licenses, $200 ; fines, $30.

The appropriations were judged to be as follows: Lister's and other accounts liquidated and allowed, $303.61 ; third installment of the jailer's house, $500 ; associate judge's fees $150 ; attorney prosecuting the pleas of the State, $80 ; clerk and sheriff, $50 ; grand jury, $90 ; judges of elections, $20 ; wolf scalps, $40 ; collectors and county treasurer's commissions, $170. roads and highways, $100 ; Board of Commissioner's clerk and stationery, $150 ; delinquencies and contingent expenses, $301.39.

The following persons were appointed to collect the county taxes : Fairfield, George HARLAN, $338.015 ; Lemon, Robert BROWN, $326.91 ; Liberty, Thomas HUNT, $173.775 ; Milford, John FRAZER, $104.80 ; Ross, Andrew WILSON, $155.865 ; St. Clair , John ORBISON, $153 ; Wayne, James BARTLEY, $142.70.

At the meeting of the Board of Commissioners, September 7, 1807, accounts were allowed to James DUNN, associate judge, $19.50 ; Henry WEAVER, associate judge, $21 ; Celadon SYMMES, associate judge, $19.50 ; Authur ST. CLAIR, attorney for the State of Ohio, $27 ; Ezekiel BALL, William GRAY, Jacob PIATT, Joseph COX, Isaac JOHN, Henry TAYLOR, Samuel SMITH, John HALSTEAD, Daniel CRUME, Thomas POTTENGER, Solomon LINE, James MCCLURE and Thompson MAXWELL, grand jurors, each, $2.25 ; Brice VIRGIN, constable, attending the grand jury, $2.25 ; Hugh CARE, wolf scalp, $1 ; William ROBY, 3 wolf scalps, $2.50 ; Zachariah P. DEWITT, wolf scalp, $1 ; Samuel LEE, wolf scalp, $1 ; Samuel CROOKS, wolf scalp, $1 ; Thomas PAINE, wolf scalp, $1.

September 8, Adam DICKEY, one of the viewers of the highway from Middletown, by Thomas HUNT's, to the State Road, between Thomas HILL's and Isaac SWEARENGIN's, $2.25 ; Abraham HUFF and Joseph WILLIAMSON, viewers, each, $2.25 ; Isaac S. SWEARENGIN, surveyor, $5 ; Ira HUNT and William HUNT, chain men, $2.01 ; Nathaniel HILL, chain man, $2.01 ; Isaac HUNT, ax man, $2.01 ; William MCCLELLAN, sheriff of Butler, fees for services in State prosecutions, where the State failed, advertising elections and summoning grand jurors, and locks for the jail, $57.42 ; John RILEY, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, making out duplicates of county and State taxes for the collectors, and stationery furnished, $58.37. On application of Samuel SEWARD, it was ordered that a deduction be made in his taxes of a stud horse of $4.

The following collectors of State taxes were appointed : Fairfield, George HARLAN, $122.892 ; Lemon Robert BROWN, $180.315 ; Liberty, Thomas HUNT, $139.597 ; Milford, John FRAZER, $13.202 ; Ross, Andrew WILSON, $49.956 ; St. Clair, John ORBISON, $41.68, Wayne, James Bartly, $48.217.

Accounts allowed, October 5, as follows : Samuel Crooks, one of the viewers of the highway from near J. BEATY's to the north west corner of the college township, $3.40 ; Zachariah P. DEWITT and Samuel BEELER, viewers, each, $3.40 ; David WOOLVERTON, chain man, $2.34 ; Stephen Elkins, marker, $2.34; William Squire, the second installment towards building the jailer's house, $250; William Patton, taxes on a stud-horse improperly levied and collected in 1806, $4.

November 2, accounts were allowed to James Heaton surveying the highway leading from near J. BEATY'S to the north-west corner of the college township, $9; Elihu LINE, one of the chain-men, #3.01; John MCCLELLAN, carrying the abstract of the election for senator in October, 1807, to the clerk's office in Warren County, $2; John STOW, wolf-scalp, $1.

Accounts were allowed, December 7, 1807, to Isaac WILES, smith-work for the county, by the direction of the sheriff, $3.50; David LEE, George MYRACLE, and John BURNS, wolf-scalps, each, $1; John ORBISON, commission for collecting the State taxes in Wayne Township, $2.89; Robert BROWN, the State taxes of Lemon Township, $10.82; John FRAZER, the State taxes in Milford Township, 79 cents; William MURRAY, one of the viewers on the alteration of the highway leading from Rossville to ISEMINGER's mill, including fees of one day for marker or ax-man, $2.37; Isaac WILES, viewer, including fees of one day of chain-man, $2.37; Robert DOUGLASS, reviewer, 85 cents; James Heaton, surveying, $3; Davis Smith, chain-man, 67 cents; William STEEL, viewer on the alteration of the highway from Scott's tan yard, up Seven Mile, 75 cents; Gilbert MARSHALL, viewer, 85 cents; thomas SIMMONS viewer, 85 cents; Henry H, JONES, surveyor $1.50.

James HEATON, commissioner of the highway leading from Hamilton to Cincinnati, having exhibited to the board his account and changes against the State of Ohio, for laying out and repairing, $75, it was allowed. January 4, 1808, accounts were allowed as follows: James DUNN, associate judge, $21; Henry WEAVER, associate judge, $21; Celadon SYMMES, associate judge, $21; Arthur ST. CLAIR, attorney for state, $27; Matthew WINTON, James BROWN, Thomas HUESTON, Sering MARSH, Squire LITTLE, Jacob MILLER, Joseph STUART, Samuel HARDEN, Nathan STUBBS, Samuel DAVIS, Peter VOORHIES, John AYRES, James MILLS, Jacob LEWIS, and John VINNEDGE, grand jurors, each, $2.25; Brice VIRGIN, constable, for attending the grand jury, 1807, $2.25; John REILY, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, for making a duplicate of the State taxes from the listers; returns in 1807, $17.50; Thomas HUNT, collecting the county and State taxes of Liberty township, $21.86; William FOSTER, wolf-scalp, $1; James BARTLEY, collecting the county taxes of Wayne Township, $11.37; William SQUIRE, third installment towards building the jailer's house, $500. It was ordered that all delinquent collectors of taxes should meet the Board of Commissioners at Hamilton on the first Monday in February next, for the purpose of settling up their respective collections.

Accounts allowed at the meeting of February 1, as follows: David BLACKBURN, a judge of an election in Reily Township, $1. Cornelius DOTY, wolf-scalp, 50 cents; John WINGATE, survivor of Torrence & Wingate, extra work in building the jail, $40; George HARLAN, collecting and paying over the county taxes in Fairfield Township, $33.74; Robert BROWN, collecting and paying over the county taxes in Lemon Township, $25.03.

March 7, 1808, the accounts allowed were as follows: John DUNN, appraiser in Ross Township, $1.25; Isaac STANLEY, attending at the clerk's office in canvassing and certifying elections, $1; John VINNEDGE, attending at the clerk's office in canvassing and certifying elections, $1.50; John MCCLELLAN, notifying john VINNEDGE to attend at the clerk's office to canvass and certify an election, $1; John FRAZER, collecting and paying over the county taxes of Milford Township, $8.25; Thomas COOCH, one of the viewers of the road from the lands of Samuel McCLEARY to the northern boundary of the county, $3.40; Eilliam MARTIN, chain-man, $1.34; John FRAZER, chain-man, $1.34; David FRAZER, marker, one day 67 cents; John DAVIS, maker, one day, 67 cents; Henry H. JONES, surveying, $4.50; John REILY, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, $27.75. it was ordered that suits should be instituted against all delinquent collectors of taxes who fail to produce and deposit with the clerk of the board within ten days the county treasurer's receipts; and that suits be instituted against all delinquents who subscribed to pay either in cash, whisky, or grain, towards the public buildings for the use of the county of Butler, including the donation made or subscribed by C.R. SEDAM. It was ordered that William CORRY, attorney at law, be employed as counsel on behalf of the county.

May 2, 1808, accounts were allowed to James DUNN, associate judge, $19.50; Henry WEAVER, associate judge, $19.50; Celadon SYMMES, associate judge, $19.50; William CORRY, attorney for prosecuting the pleas of the State, $27; James MILLS, John HAMILTON, Jr., Enoch DANFORD, Abner ENOCH, James RUGLESS, Samuel DICKEY, Moses TEGARDEN, John THOMPSON, William WEBSTER, Andrew WILSON, Joseph WORTH, Isaac WILES, John COON, William HAYSE, and Thompson MAXWELL, grand jurors, each $3.

Accounts were allowed at the meeting of June 6, 1808, to Amos HAWKINS, 5 wolf-scalps, $5; George MYRACLE, wolf-scalp, $1; David LEE, 2 wolf-scalps, $2; John PATTERSON, damages sustained by the alteration of the road commonly called Wayne's trace, through his lands as per report of the viewers, $13; David BEATY, coroner, for the cost and charges of an inquest held on the dead body of Ambrose LAWRENCE, $10.90; Maxwell PARKINSON, 8 wolf-scalps, $4.

At the August meeting, a statement of the probable general receipts and expenditures of the county of Butler, for the year 1808, was given. Probable receipts: County taxes, $1,396.29; land tax, the county moiety, $422; tavern, store, and ferry licenses, $200; fines and forfeitures, $30; arrears of county taxes for 1807, $130.09. Appropriations: Amount probably necessary to meet the orders which remained unsatisfied on the second Monday in June, 1808, $400 ; listers and other accounts liquidated since second Monday in June, 1808, $145.62 ; fourth installment of the jailer's house, $345 ; associate judge's fees, $150 ; attorney, prosecuting the pleas of the State for the county, $80 ; clerk and sheriff, $50 ; grand jury's fees, $100 ; judges of the elections, $40 ; wolf and panther scalps, $40 ; viewers of roads and highways, $50 ; probable amount of the Board of Commissioners, clerk, and stationery, $150 ; towards furnishing the new jail, $300 ; collector's and county treasurer's commissions, $200 ; contingent expenses and delinquencies, $127.76. The following collectors were appointed to collect the county taxes : Fairfield, George HARLAN, $306.249 ; Lemon, Wiliam HARVEY, $323.825 ; Liberty, Thomas HUNT, $181.525 ; Milford, Robert SCOTT, $89.50 ; Reily, John PRICE, $59.50 ; Ross, James MAHAN, $139.55 ; St. Clair, William BRODERICK, $160.536 ; Wayne, James BARCLAY, $135.61. The following collectors of State taxes were appointed, and having given bonds, ect., were severally furnished with duplicates : Fairfield, George HARLAN, $186.194 ; Lemon, William HARVEY, $210.454 ; Liberty, Thomas HUNT, $141.55 ; Milford, Robert SCOTT, $19.13 ; Ross, James MAHAN, $73.748 ; St. Clair, William BRODERICK, $49.655 ; Wayne, James BARCLAY, $55.535. Captain Isaac WILES, for the soldiers to guard the jail in June and July , 1808, $19.25 ; John WINGATE, sheriff, services rendered the county, including a portion of the annual allowance made by law, to the sheriff for failures in State prosecutions, $70.50 ; William MCCLELLAN, late sheriff, proclaiming elections, including a part of the annual allowance made by law to the sheriff, for failures in State prosecutions, ect., $24 ;John REILY, CLERK OF bUTLER cOMMON pLEAS, $35.50 ; John REILY, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, in drawing orders for roads and highways established by the Board of Commissioners, $33.

Accounts were allowed, September 5, 1808, to James DUNN, associate judge of Butler Common Pleas, $15 ; Henry WEAVER, associate judge, $15 ; Cleladon SYMMES, associate judge, $15 ; William CORRY, attorney at law, prosecuting the pleas of the State in Butler Common Pleas, 1808 $27 ; Samuel DICK, John DICKSON, Adam DICKEY, Moses VAIL, Michael MORNINGSTAR, John FISHER, Thomas KYLE, Benjamin HAWKINS, John WITHROW, John RICHARDSON, John RICHMOND, Henry TAYLOR , Thompson MAXWELL, Samuel DAVIS, and John MORRIS, grand jurors, each, $1.50 ; Robert BROWN, constable, for attending the grand jury, $1.50 ; Samuel POWELL, appraiser in Lemon Township, $3.12 ; Robert LYTLE, one of the viewers on the road beginning at the State Road between Ogle's and Stout's, thence to Greenwood's, $1.70 ; William ROBISON, viewer, $1.70 ; James SCOTT, viewer, $1.70 ; James HEATON, surveyor, $3. ; Morton IRWIN, chain man, 67 cents ; Robert CROME, chain man, 67 cents ; John KENNEDY, ax man, 67 cents ; John REILY, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, $65.25.

William SQUIRE was requested to lay before the board, at their next meeting, a statement of what sums he has collected on the subscription papers made toward the public buildings.

At the next meeting it was ordered that William SQUIRE have further time given, or until the first Monday of November next, to lay before the board a statement of the sums by him collected on the subscription paper made toward public buildings, and put into his hands for collection ; and it was ordered that suit be again instituted against William SQUIRE and his bail, on their contract for building the jailer's house, ect.

At the meeting of November 7, 1808, it was ordered that there be allowed to the judges and clerks of elections the sum of 75 cents per day, and the sum of five cents per mile to the judge who returns the poll book.

Amounts were allowed to John JAMES, wolf scalp, $1 ; Godfrey WAGGONER, wolf scalp $1 ; John WINGATE, sheriff, in part for locks, ect., furnished for the jail, $15.03 ; Ezekiel BALL, one of the judges at the October annual election in Lemon Township, and for returning the poll book, $2.90 ; John WINGATE, sheriff, for work done at the jail, $12.07.

December 6, 1808, accounts were allowed to the following persons : HOUGH, BLAIR & Co., for iron locks, nails, ect., furnished the sheriff, plank furnished for the jail, making doors and hanging the same, $26.06 ; William MCCLEAR, iron furnished for the jail, &70 ; John REILY, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, to making a duplicate of the State taxes, $29.75.

February 6, 1809, accounts were allowed to James DUNN, associate judge, $21 ; Henry WEAVER, associate judge, $24 ; Celadon SYMMES, associate judge, $21 ; William CORRY, prosecuting the pleas on behalf of the State, $27 ; David BEATY, Isaac STANLEY, John MCDONALD, James PIPER, John MORROW, Abraham MONTONEY, John KENNEDY, Knoles SHAW, Robert WINTON, Samuel AYRES, John CRAIG, Matthew HUESTON, Solomon LINE, and Thomas HUNT, grand jurors, each, $2.25 ; Robert BROWN, constable, in attending on grand jury, $2.25 ; Ezekiel BALL, judge of the election for justice of the peace in Lemon Township, $1.45 ; Joseph LUMMIS, judge of election, 75 cents ; Gideon LONG, judge of election, 75 cents ; Daniel L. PIERCE, clerk of election, 75 cents ; James BOLIS, clerk of election, 75 cents ; Enoch DANFORD, judge of the election of justices of the peace in Wayne Township, $1.25 ; James WITHEROW, judge of election, 75 cents ; James STAGGS, judge of election, 75 cents ; Moses EVEANS, clerk of the election for justices of the peace in Wayne Township, 75 cents ; Issiah ORE, clerk of election, 75 cents ; Matthew HUESTON, attendance at the clerk's office to canvas and certify the election of justice of the peace held in Lemon Township, $1 ; John JOLLY, notifying Matthew HUESTON to attend at the clerk's office to canvas and certify the election for justice of the peace in Lemon Township, 75 cents ; John VINNEDGE, attending at the clerk's office to canvas and certify the election for justices of the peace in Wayne Township, $1 ; James MILLS, plank furnished for the court room, $6 ; Hugh BLAIR & Co., a pair of andirons, shovel, and tongs, furnished for the use of the court room, $5.69 ; Thomas HUNT, commission for collecting and paying over the State and county taxes of Liberty Township, $26.39 ; James BARCLAY, collecting and paying over the State and county taxes of Lemon Township, $31.88 ; Nathaniel BELL, collecting and paying over the county taxes of Wayne Township, $9.20 ; Aaron SOUTHARD, carpenter work done in the court room, $18.

At the meeting of February 15, 1809, a request was made by William SQUIRE, the undertaker of the jailer's house, for more money on the contract, and refused, suit having been instituted by the board.

March 7, 1809, accounts were allowed to Samuel DICK, for his services as one of the viewers of the road from Rossville to the west boundary of the county, opposite James CROOKS's, $5.10 ; William BLACKBURN, viewer, $5.10 ; William CROOKS, viewer, $5.10 ; James HEATON, surveyor, $8.50 ; Benjamin DAVIS and Cyrus TIMBRUL, chain men, each, $2.68 ; Hampton ADKINS, ax man, $2.68 ; Samuel DICK, one of the viewers of the road from William's mill, on Indian Creek, to the west boundary of the county, at the west side of section No. six, town four, of the first range, $4.25 ; William BLACKBURN and William CROOKS, viewers, each, $4.25 ; James HEATON, surveyor, $7. ; Benjamin DAVIS and Cyrus LAMBERT, chain men, each, $2.01 ; Hampton ADKINS, ax man, $2.01 ; John WINGATE, sheriff, two large locks, ect., procured for the jail of Butler County, $17.17.

Accounts were allowed, April 10, 1809, to William WILSON, a judge of the election for justice of the peace in Lemon Township, held April 3, 1809, for returning the poll book, $1.45 ; Joseph WILLIAMSON and Squire LITTLE, judges of election, each, 75 cents ; Joseph WORTH, and Amos SEWELL, clerks of election, each, 75 cents ; John E. SCOTT, for his services as a judge at the election of justice of the peace held in Milford Township, 3rd of April, 1809, and for returning the poll book, $1.30 ; Conrad DOW and William OGLE, judges of election, each 75 cents ; Matthew RICHARDSON and Joseph STEELE, clerks of election, each, 75 cents ; George MYRACLE, wolf scalp, $1 ; Nathan GRIFFITH, for a large lock made for the jail of Butler County, $16 ; William SQUIRE, in part of the fourth installment for building the jailer's house, $150 ; John WINGATE, sheriff of Butler County, for dieting and guarding, ect., John CUMMINS, a prisoner, lately confined in the jail of Butler County, $64.15 ; John REILY, clerk of the Board of Commissioners, $10.50.

Suit was ordered instituted against George HARLAN, delinquent collector of State taxes in the township of Fairfield for the year 1808.

May 1, 1808, accounts were allowed to James DUNN, associate judge, $18 ; Celadon SYMMES, associate judge, $18 ; William CORRY, attorney, for prosecuting the pleas of the State, Butler Common Pleas and Supreme Court, against Cornelius CUMMINS, $16 ; James HEATON, Squire LITTLE, Benjamin VAN CLEIF, Robert BROWN, Isaac S. SWEARINGIN, Michael AYRES, William SMITH, Solomon HITTLE, Ebenezer PADDOCKS, William MITCHEL, Joseph WALKER, Thomas HUNT, John VINNEDGE, Thompson MAXWELL, and John SMITH, grand jurors, each, $2.25 ; Josiah CONKLIN, constable, for attending the grand jury, $2.25 ; Benjamin DAVIS, making hinges and spikes for the jail, $19.45 ; John WINGATE, in part on account of work and materials found ect., for the completing the jail, $134.44.

Accounts were allowed on the meeting of June 5, 1809, to David Beaty, coroner, for holding an inquest on the dead body of Baldwin MOORE, on the 19th March, 1809, $13.30.

June 17, 1809, it was ordered, by and with the assent of William SQUIRE, that the suit now pending in the Butler Common Pleas between the Board of Commissioners, plaintiffs and William SQUIRE and his sureties, on the contract for building the jailer's house, finding the materials, ect., be submitted to reference.

Accounts were allowed at the next meeting, that of July 3, 1809, to George HARLAN, as lister and appraiser of houses in Fairfeild Township, $6.25 ; Robert FERRIS, lister and appraiser of houses in Lemon Township, $30.62 ; Abner ENOCH, appraiser of houses in Lemon Township, $4.37 ; Thomas HUNT, lister and appraiser of houses in Liberty Township, $24 ; Michael AYRES, appraiser of houses in Liberty Township, $1.25 ; Robert YOUNG lister and appraiser of houses in Milford Township, $8.75 ; James MARTIN, appraiser of houses in Milford Township, $1.25 ; John PRICE, lister and appraiser of houses in Reily Township, $7.50 ; William BRODERICK, lister and appraiser of houses in St. Clair Township, $12.50 ; Adam HEATH, appraiser of houses in St. Clair Township, $1.25 ; Nathaniel BELL, lister ans appraiser of houses in Wayne Township, $11.45 ; Jonathan STAGGS, appraiser of houses in Wayne Township, $2.50 ; Peter WILLIAMSON, one of the judges of the election for justices of the peace in Liberty Township, and returning the poll book of the same, $1.75 ; Daniel NELSON, one of the judges of election, $1 ; Joseph COX, judge of election, $1 ; John FREEMAN, clerk of election, $1 ; Thomas FISH, clerk of election, $1 ; William SQUIRE, fourth installment for building the jailer's house, $194.34.

It was ordered that notice should be given, by publication in the Whig and Liberty Hall, to all those who were in arrears with the county of Butler on their subscriptions made to assist in erecting public buildings, to come forward and deposit the same with Isacc STANLEY, of Hamilton, or confess a judgment before him for the same before the first day of August next, and that suits be immediately instituted against all those who should fail to comply with the foregoing requisition.

Probable amount of the general receipts and expenditures :

Receipts.---- Amount of the county taxes, $1,507.58 ; one-third part of the State or land tax, $288 ; store, tavern, and ferry license, $200 ; fines and forfeitures, $20 ; arrears of taxes in the collector's hands, for the year 1808, $240.82.

Appropriations.---- Amount probably necessary to pay for the orders drawn (outstanding) previous to the second Monday in June 1809, $300 ; amount of orders drawn since the second Monday in June 1809, $364.12 ; probable amount of the associate judge's fees, $160 ; attorney for the state, $80 ; clerk and sheriff, $80 ; grand jury's fees, $120 ; judges and clerks of elections, $70 ; wolves' and panthers' scalps, $40 ; viewers, etc., of roads and highways, $50 ; Board of Commissioners, their clerk, stationery, etc., $175 ; collectors' and county treasurer's commissions, $200 ; necessary to be expended on the jail, contingent expenses and delinquencies, $617.28.

Accounts were allowed William BRODERICK, commission for collecting and paying over the county taxes of St. Clair Township, $15.83 ; John WINGATE, sheriff of Butler County, for materials furnished and work done in completing the jail of Butler County, including dieting criminals and the annual allowance, made by law, for failures in State prosecutions, $281.23 ; John Reily, clerk of Butler Common Pleas, $46.12 ; William MURRAY, one of the judges of the election of justice of the peace, in Fairfield Township, $1 ; David BEATY, judge of election, $1 ; Thomas W. SPENCER, judge of election, $1 ; James HEATON, clerk of election, $1 ; William CALDWELL, judge of the election held for electing two justices of the peace, St. Clair Township, on August 3, 1809, and returning the poll book, $1.75 ; George HUFFMAN, judge of election, $1 ; Robert WINTON, judge of election, $1 ; Jeremy BEATY, clerk of election, $1 ; John TAYLOT, clerk of election, $1 ; Christopher BEELER, wolf scalp, $1 ; Joe COLLINS, wolf scalp, $1.

The following persons were appointed to collect the county taxes : Fairfield, George HARLAN, $332.442 ; Lemon, William HARVEY, $379.897 ; Liberty, Thomas HUNT, $176.425 ; Milford, Robert YOUNG, $94.20 ; Reily, John PRICE, $71.80 ; Ross, James DENNING, $141.50 ; St. Clair, William BRODERICK, $169. 261 ; Wayne, Nathaniel BELL, $142.06.

The following persons were appointed to collect the State taxes : Fairfield, George HARLAN, $158.207 ; Lemon, William HARVEY, $602. 387 ; Liberty, Thomas HUNT, $160.387 ; Milford, Robert YOUNG, $81.535 ; Reily, John PRICE, $18.18 ; Ross, James DUNNING, $59.308 ; St. Clair, William BRODERICK, $49.734 ; Wayne, Nathaniel BELL $76.959.

September 4, 1809, accounts were allowed as follows : James DUNN, associate judge of Butler Common Pleas, $15. ; Henry WEAVER, $15 ; Celadon SYMMES, $9 ; William CORRY, attorney for the State in Butler Common Pleas, $27 ; James SMITH, Samuel KENNEDY, John CALDWELL, John BAKER, Hendrick LANE, Tobias BARKALOW, John FISHER, Thomas IRWIN, John DUNN, Robert MOREHEAD, Joseph HOUGH, Samuel DAVIS, Thompson MAXWELL, Henry TAYLOR, and James PIERCE, grand jurors, each, $1.50 ; Daniel SALLE, constable, for attending grand jury in Butler Common Pleas, $1.50.

November 23, 1813, the commissioners drew an order of $2,000, as first payment to John E. SCOTT, on the new court house.

December 7, 1813, the bond of James MCBRIDE, for the faithful discharge of his duties as sheriff, was recorded with James and Hugh WILSON as his sureties ; amount, $4.000.

January 3, 1814, Matthew RICHARDSON took his seat as county commissioner, having been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John WINGATE. His associates were James BLACKBURN and William ROBISON.

February 7, ordered that John SCOTT, contractor of the new court house, be allowed to collect the subscriptions of stone, brick, timber, lime, mechanical work, labor, etc., as reported by committee on subscriptions, July 18, 1803. The bond of David BEATY, of $2,000, indorsed by David BEATY, David BRANT, and Samuel MILLER, for the faithful discharge of the former duties as coroner, recorded.

May 2, John RICHMOND, road commissioner, was allowed $6.75, in full for his services in the repair of the road from the forks of the State road at Knox & Iseminger's mill to Hielay's mill.

June 6, the commissioners appointed John REILY clerk, Hugh WILSON treasurer, and Richard SCOTT collector of State or Land taxes, the treasurer's remuneration to be three per centum.

August 1, the board made their yearly estimate of the probable receipts and expenditures of the county as follows : Receipts--- From county taxes, $2,300 ; land taxes, $350 ; store, tavern,and ferry licenses, $300 ; cash in treasury, taxes, fines, and debts due to the county over and above the sum of $1,250 here to fore appropriated for building court house, $1,275.50 ; total $4,425.50. Expenditures-- Associate judges, $220 ; State attorney, $81 ; clerk and sheriff, $120 ; dieting prisoners in jail, $100 ; grand jury and constables, $100 ; judges and clerks of elections, $150 ; viewers of roads, $75 ; commissioners, clerk, and stationery, $200 ; listers and appraisers of property, $153.51 ; collectors and county treasurer, $300 ; orders drawn by commissioners not yet presented for payment, $150 ; to be paid towards new court house, $1,500 ; to meet delinquencies and contingent expenses, $1,275.99 ; total, $4,425.50.

May 1, 1815, the commissioners agreed to have but two windows in the north end of court house, first floor (instead of five).

June 5, the rates of ferriage were reduced by the board exactly one-half.

August 7, the estimates of the year's receipts and expenditures were made as follows : Receipts, $4,809 ; expenditures, $4,809 ; allowing $2,000 to run the court house, and $1,393.17 for contingent expense.

January 1, 1816, it was ordered that the sheriff should keep in repair the jailer's house (the court room included), without any compensation, excepting only the use thereof for the accommodation of the jailer.

August 5, the estimates of receipts and expenditures for the current year shows a falling off over the previous year as follows : Receipts, $4,236.96 ; expenditures, $4,236.96 ; allowing but $1,500 toward the court house building, and $1,029.01 for contingent expenses.

November 4, Joseph HENDERSON took his seat as commissioner, having been re-elected. Daniel MILLIKEN, associate judge, having, presented an account of $102, for duties, such as allowing writs of habeas corpus, examining bills in equity, allowing writs of injunction, etc., which was not allowed by the Board of Commissioners, gave notice of an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas.

January 6, 1817, ordered that the Public Square be inclosed with a board fence, open work, and that there be left off from each end four poles, on the north side one pole, and that the south side be on a line with the jail and jailer's house, and that Hugh WILSON be the agent to purchase the materials and make the contract for inclosing the same.

March 3, Daniel KEYT agrees to inclose the Public Square at the rate of $1.25 per panel, and $5 for making three gates, one in front of each door of the court house, the materials to be furnished by the Board of Commissioners.

April 5, Doctor William GREENLEE was appointed to attend Peter D. GREEN, a lunatic confined in the jail of Butler County.

June 2nd, the license for store keepers and peddlers for retailing merchandise was placed at $10.

June 3rd, Celadon SYMMES was offered a contract for putting railings around the court house square.

August 4th, John HALL, of Rossville, was appointed commissioner in place of John WITHROW, who refused to serve.

September 13th, a ball and spire for the court house was purchased for $309.

November 10th, Thomas BLAIR took the oath and his seat as county commissioner, having been duly elected to said office.

August 4th, James MCBRIDE, for duties as sheriff for previous year and for money expended in erecting a tenement near court house, $89.42.

John REILY, clerk of commissioners, for year's services, $70.50.

October 13th, John YOUNG, for tin work on cupola of court house, $7.

December 6th, Pierson SAYRE, sheriff elect, filed his bond of $6,000, with James MCBRIDE and John CALDWELL as sureties.

John HALL, coroner elect, filed his bond in the sum of $2,000, with William M. SMITH and Henry TRABER as sureties.

April 4, 1818, a bridge was ordered built over Two mile Creek, north of Rossville, at an expense of $100 ; also a bridge across Elk Creek at Miltonville, to cost $40.

June 18th, Britton MOORE was appointed to lay out $20 on the improvement of the county road from Belch's tavern to the east boundary of the county on the way to Lebanon. MOORE was appointed in the place of Joseph STEVENS, who refused to serve.

August 3rd, the receipts of the county for the year were estimated at $6,670.75.

August 12th, Dr Daniel MILLIKIN was appointed to attend John JOHNSTON, a lunatic confined in county jail.

September 10th, John SMITH was appointed sealer of measures in place of Hugh WILSON, resigned.

August 12th, Dr. MILLIKIN was allowed $2 for attending John JOHNSTON, as above.

John E. SCOTT was voted $1,000 over and above the original contract price for building the court house, he having shown that he expended that sum necessarily.

November 7th, William ROBISON took his seat as commissioner.

January 5th, 1819, John SNIDER was allowed $9 for expenses in going to Cincinnati for some stove pipe.

March 1st, it being found that the moneys then in the treasury, together with the moneys due to the county, and which money it was expected would be collected, would be sufficient to defray the ordinary expenses of the county for that year, it was, therefore, ordered that no tax under the act entitled "An act regulating county levies" be levied on the county for the year, and that notice thereof be given to the listers by publication in the Miami Herald.

We end our quotations with the year 1819. Enough has been given to show how inexpensively the wheels of goverment turned in the early part of the century, and with how little power men could be controlled. Ohio came forth into the world a full fledged commonwealth, the first known in history. It was Minerva bursting full armed from the brian of Jupiter. Yet every thing moved smoothly.

The reader will notice some things that sound oddly enough. The court was obliged to omit its sessions until a stove could be hired by the sheriff ; subscriptions were taken for the public buildings in labor, whisky, provisions, or money ; wolves were an object of so much fear that a premium was offered for their destruction, and laying out a new road was one of the commonest occurrences. It may interest those who know at what rate we now pay our public servants, to see how frugally judges of election, judges, sheriffs, and clerks were paid. There were no expenses worth considering for the poor or for the vicious ; no charge for lunatics ; the coroner's bills light, and schools were not in existence.